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Intelligent Controls For A Semi-Active Hydraulic Prosthetic Knee, Timothy Allen Wilmot
Intelligent Controls For A Semi-Active Hydraulic Prosthetic Knee, Timothy Allen Wilmot
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We discuss open loop control development and simulation results for a semi-active above-knee prosthesis. The control signal consists of two hydraulic valve settings. These valves control a rotary actuator that provides torque to the prosthetic knee. We develop open loop control using biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is a recently developed evolutionary algorithm, and gradient descent. We use gradient descent to show that the control generated by BBO is locally optimal. This research contributes to the field of evolutionary algorithms by demonstrating that BBO is successful at finding optimal solutions to complex, real-world, nonlinear, time varying control problems. The research contributes …